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Locomotion and its recovery after spinal injury
1Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Pavillon Paul-G-Desmarais, CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Québec, Canada. Serge.Rossignol@umontreal.ca
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
|March 10, 2001
Abstract:
Recent advances indicate not only that the spinal cord has great potential for locomotor recovery after lesion but also that locomotor training can optimise this recovery through some form of 'learning'. Improvement of residual function can also be achieved through the use of various drugs and treatments such as spinal grafts. In spinal-cord-injured humans, a number of recent studies have allowed an objective quantification of the improvement of locomotion through various forms of training and stimulation.